Music Around the World Celebration Night

I was blessed this school year to be able to host our third year of Music Around the World with our Kindergarten-Second Grade students here at Watson MST. Together with sixty of our talented students, we learned about the different songs and instruments that countries around our world have to offer. After enjoying our Music Around the World Club together for two eight week sessions, we had the opportunity to present everything that we had learned to our parents and school family at our Music Around the World Celebration Night. I was so very proud of our boys and girls! They did a fantastic job! I want to thank our school family, our friends, and our wonderful Watson families for joining us in this celebration by attending our performance and showing us all such great love and support. In conjunction with our Music Around the World Club, we participated in a service project benefiting Josh Groban's Find You Light Foundation. Working together for a special cause, my Kindergarten class and my Music Around the World Club, sold "Cookies for Quarters" at all of our music events here at Watson this year. My Music Around the World Club also sold dvds of their performance to help raise funds for this important service project. I am excited to announce that we made $4,000! That means in the four years that we have partnered with Josh's Find Your Light Foundation, we have made a total of $10,000! I can not wait to see how Josh Groban's Find Your Light Foundation can use this money to help students around the world who might not be blessed with the music opportunities that we have experienced here at Watson. You might also have noticed our super cool Find Your Light t-shirts that we wore during our performance. Find Your Light Foundation did an amazing job of creating these for us this year. We decided to have a bit of fun when we gave them to our kids. If you would like to see how we surprised them, check it out here. (Disclaimer---Josh's voice is provided by my Dad. Josh was busy performing in a Broadway play at the time, and I thought that he would rather sound a bit Texan than like a girl, so my Dad was kind enough to fill in for him.) We could not be more grateful for the shirts. My sweet kids love them and have been wearing them on Fridays ever since they received them! Thank you for allowing me the great privilege of working with your wonderful students and celebrating the universal language of music together. I had a wonderful time, and I look forward to watching our students as they continue to "Find Their Light" and "Shine On"! Here are some pictures from this exciting event.

Music Around the World Celebration Night

Kindergarten Awards Ceremony

What an amazing day! I could not be more proud of my sweet students today. They have worked so very hard to learn so much this year. From reading and writing to solving math problems and learning to be good friends, this year has been full of wonderful experiences that we will never forget. We have had so much fun together this year going on field trips, participating in project based learning experiences, and helping others through service projects.  It is so hard to let my kids move on, but they are ready! I know that they are going to be fabulous First Graders! You have all been such a wonderful blessing to me this year! I wish you the best in First Grade! :)

Today we celebrated our accomplishments, our friendships, and our Watson Kindergarten family! Here are some pictures from our exciting day and a link to our slide show from the year:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CGJElEYcj8M3NDcmwyMWhMN1E/view?usp=sharing

Dallas Zoo

During the past two weeks our Kindergarten and First Grade students have been hard at work researching endangered animals through a PBL experience. Together in small groups, our students learned about panda bears, polar bears, tigers, elephants, gorillas, and sea turtles. They studied ways to help these endangered animals and then created propaganda to help educate others about the needs of these animals. Then, we took to the hallways and advocated for the protection of our endangered animals as we paraded through our school encouraging our Watson family to help save these animals. We also created commercials which our Watson family viewed in support of our cause. After all of our hard work these past two weeks, we had some fun exploring the Dallas Zoo and seeing the animals that we learned about all week in person. You can enjoy our parade, commercials, and zoo show below. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.

Zoo Parade

https://vimeo.com/219628493

Zoo Commercials

Gorilla Commercial

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_CGJElEYcj8bEFueVM1MWM5ZXc/view?usp=sharing

Zoo Visit

https://animoto.com/play/0IBbgMBnnXAH90JL1yS3UA

Music Around the World--Session 3--Week 7--England

This week in our Music Around the World class we enjoyed learning about England. We explored the Time for Kids website for this country and learned about many unique places that it has to offer. In England, we learned that they enjoy having tea and saw amazing pictures of Big Ben. Then, we had the opportunity to create our own instrument out of recyclable materials. Here is a video and some pictures from our fun day.

https://vimeo.com/219336181

Fun Run! :)

What a fun day we had running in our school's Fun Run! With each lap that we ran, we earned money for our school, which we plan to use to purchase new furniture for our library! Here is an exciting video from our day! Check out how much fun we had and leave us a comment and let us know what you think!

                                                        https://vimeo.com/218835749